Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . lf, whilesince being retired to the stud she has thrown RoyalPenn. one of the best two-year-olds seen on the CanadianCircuit this season. Eonic won twenty-two races, includ-ing the Fleur-de-Lis Handicap. Lissak Stakes and the$10,000 Burns Handicap. Penn was her first foal andbred back to Cunard, the daughter of Eon, produced theyearling colt that now gives promise of making a racehorse. (Continued on Page 1067.) 1048 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [November, CHAMPION STALLION OF FRA
Southern planter: devoted to practical and progressive agriculture, horticulture, trucking, live stock and the fireside . lf, whilesince being retired to the stud she has thrown RoyalPenn. one of the best two-year-olds seen on the CanadianCircuit this season. Eonic won twenty-two races, includ-ing the Fleur-de-Lis Handicap. Lissak Stakes and the$10,000 Burns Handicap. Penn was her first foal andbred back to Cunard, the daughter of Eon, produced theyearling colt that now gives promise of making a racehorse. (Continued on Page 1067.) 1048 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [November, CHAMPION STALLION OF FRANCE COMES TOVIRGINIA. Many of our readers saw at the recent State Fair, thegreat Percheron stallion, Etudiant Champion of France,recently purchased and imported by Mr. E. B. White ofSelma Stock Farm, Leesburg, Va. At present this horsestands as the greatest horse of the breed. He won theChampionship of France and for four successive years hewon the blue ribbon at Nogent, the greatest Percheronshow of the French republic. Mr. White secured thishorse from M. Avelou whose chief sire he has been forthe past three Etudiant was posed by a Paris artist as a model forthe big bronze horse on the Nogent le Rotreu show groundsin 1907. This horse, of course, won the blue ribbon at the Vir-ginia State Fair as did several mares from the Selma sta-bles, including the thrice champion of France. With the addition of Etudiant, Mr. White has a Perch-eron establishment second to none in this country, all ofwhich emphasizes the fact that Virginia is rapidly forg-ing to the front as a great live stock State. PERCHERONS vs. PUNCHES. Editor Southern Planter: In your issue for October you took issue with me in re-gard to my comments on the Suffolk Punch, and you an-ticipated me by saying that I would say your partialityfor the Punch was because you were an you strongly demonstrated this fact in your articlewhen you said: The Englishman the world over has thereputation for knowing
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